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Ben's Personal Pilgrimage through the Holy Land in Modern-Day Jerusalem · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: I'm coming to you live from Jerusalem on my pilgrimage
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Speaker 1: here to Israel, and I can tell you it has
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Speaker 1: been nothing but an unbelievable trip to be here. I
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Speaker 1: was sitting here before, and I'm going to have a
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Speaker 1: guest in a moment, the President and the Global CEO
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Speaker 1: of IFCJ, the International Fellowship a Christians and Jews, you know,
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Speaker 1: Exstein is going to join me. But I just wanted
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Speaker 1: to kind of lay the land for you. This is
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Speaker 1: the fifth time that I had planned a trip to
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Speaker 1: come to Israel, and the first four times had been
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Speaker 1: canceled because of different things. One time it was COVID,
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Speaker 1: and the other three were because of war and outbreak
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Speaker 1: and attacks had happened, and so it put it on pause.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I was even supposed to this summer bring
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Speaker 1: my entire family to Israel as a guest of the
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Speaker 1: Israeli government and just go on a pilgrimage with all
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Speaker 1: of us. That obviously got canceled for because of the war.
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Speaker 1: But this time I was coming over and I was
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Speaker 1: hell bent on getting here. I get on the plane,
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Speaker 1: I'm sitting on the tarmac for five I think it's
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Speaker 1: about five hours, and they cancel the flight, and I
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Speaker 1: walked up to the pilot. I was like, there's no
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Speaker 1: way I'm getting out of here tonight, gonna make my
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Speaker 1: flight in Newark to go over to tell Aviv. And
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Speaker 1: he's like, dude, I get off this plane right now.
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Speaker 1: He was like, I got two different He goes, you've
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Speaker 1: got two different people on the plane. They're about to
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Speaker 1: time out. So I get off the plane, go back home, sleep,
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Speaker 1: get back. I was like, I'm going I'm not cancling
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Speaker 1: this trip. And now I am here, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: talk a little bit during this conversation about what I've
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Speaker 1: seen here. But I do want to bring in and
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Speaker 1: have a really interesting conversation with a l ex teen
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Speaker 1: who is with IFCJ. You live basically the majority, by
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Speaker 1: the way, welcome and so nice. Have you back. Thank
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Speaker 1: you you live here, I do, and you travel a
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Speaker 1: ton to the US, but that's because you live in Israel,
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Speaker 1: not the other way around, which is me like what
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Speaker 1: I'm doing here. I have to say just coming here.
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Speaker 1: There's there's one thing I will message I want to
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Speaker 1: get across to people listening. If you are planning to
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Speaker 1: come to Israel, it is wide open for business now yes,
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Speaker 1: I have felt incredibly safe, and I feel like it
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Speaker 1: is very different than it would have been even a
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Speaker 1: month ago. You can tell where the shops have reopened,
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Speaker 1: the people that are advocating and supporting tourism. I was
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Speaker 1: one of the ladies that took me on a tour
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Speaker 1: the old city. Was incredible because she was talking about
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Speaker 1: how she didn't work for almost two and a half
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Speaker 1: years because of the war. And so if you want
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Speaker 1: to come to Israel, now's a great time to come
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Speaker 1: and you feel safe as well.
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Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, I have to tell you, I felt
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Speaker 2: safe every second in the past two years, even if
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Speaker 2: we had thirty five thousand rockets launched at tiny Israel
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Speaker 2: the size of New Jersey, thirty five over thirty five
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Speaker 2: thousand seven, Yeah, thousand thousand from seven different fronts, suicide drones,
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Speaker 2: ballistic missiles, Katchoosha rockets. But you know what, and I
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Speaker 2: really believe that when you're doing the right thing, God
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Speaker 2: protects you. And I believe that I'm here living out
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Speaker 2: the words of our prophets, walk these footsteps that our
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Speaker 2: ancestors from the scriptures walked, and they saw us sitting
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Speaker 2: here me and you've been in Jerusalem overlooking the Old City,
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Speaker 2: that one day Christians and Jews would be able to
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Speaker 2: come home. And every time I would hear the siren,
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Speaker 2: I would always envision it a chauffar call a trumpet,
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Speaker 2: and I would imagine God saying, Okay, wake up, wake up,
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Speaker 2: I'm here. You have my protection, and I would run
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Speaker 2: to the shelter with my children, with my husband, and
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Speaker 2: I would imagine the shelter being in the wings of
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Speaker 2: his security and safety, and we would just sit and say, hey,
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Speaker 2: Veloyshan Shomriisral, the guardian of Israel. Neither slumbers nor sleeps,
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Speaker 2: and so right now, thank God, it is as safe
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Speaker 2: as ever for people to come. We've actually wiped out
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Speaker 2: most of the biggest threats and Lebanon and Iran and
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Speaker 2: Syria and the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and
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Speaker 2: we're very aware and alert of those threats that if
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Speaker 2: there was ever a time to come to Israel to
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Speaker 2: support the local economy, to show solidarity with the people
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Speaker 2: in Israel, Jews, Arabs and Christians, we are waiting for
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Speaker 2: you guys.
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Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that I think is
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Speaker 1: really interesting about being here, and I've read it, but
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Speaker 1: I didn't understand it until I've witnessed it over the
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Speaker 1: last couple of days. I think there's a misconception in
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Speaker 1: America that if you come to Israel, everyone in Israel
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Speaker 1: is Jewish. Walking by yesterday, walking in the markets, going
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Speaker 1: to the whaling Wall, and seeing Jesus' tomb, this is
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Speaker 1: an insanely eclectic city. Yes, with an incredible amount of
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Speaker 1: the population is actually Muslim. I don't think a lot
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Speaker 1: of people understand that. If you haven't studied history and
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Speaker 1: studied Israel, that is something that I think would shock
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Speaker 1: many people if you've never come.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're around a mile away from the Garden of Kesemite.
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Speaker 2: When you walk and you see all different people from
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Speaker 2: all around the world, Christians from also from Israel, great
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Speaker 2: Orthodox and priests and visitors that are treated with the
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Speaker 2: utmost respect and appreciation. But in Israel, where a country
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Speaker 2: with round seven point five million Jews, and twenty percent
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Speaker 2: of our population are non Jews. And so you have Arabs,
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Speaker 2: you have Drus, you have Bedouin, you have Muslims, you
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Speaker 2: have all different religions that have freedom, and of course
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Speaker 2: you have one of these.
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Speaker 1: Said the key word there, I'm interrupting your freedom because
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Speaker 1: what I watched yesterday was and I didn't realize this,
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Speaker 1: in the Old City they were saying that almost forty
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Speaker 1: percent of the population is Muslim. Yeah, I would not
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Speaker 1: have known that if I wouldn't have witnessed it, because
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have known to ask that question. Right, And
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Speaker 1: they've talked about freedom like freedom of religion. There is
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Speaker 1: no problem with where we see God is literally carrying
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Speaker 1: his cross, He's going to be die on to then
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Speaker 1: seeing a moss is the most one of the most
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Speaker 1: important moss in the Muslim fate. That is incredible that
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Speaker 1: they're that coexisting that close together.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, to me, freedom also means of course respect and appreciation,
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Speaker 2: but also tangible build in this brotherhood. When you go
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Speaker 2: down the streets of Jerusalem, there's no sign that doesn't
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Speaker 2: have Arabic writing on it. You have Hebrew, you have English,
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Speaker 2: and you have Arabic. Every street sign, every holy site sign,
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Speaker 2: most store signs even And you can compare that to
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Speaker 2: where the rest of the Middle East is. In Israel
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Speaker 2: were seven point five million Jews with over two million
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Speaker 2: non Jews. In the entire Middle East, there are twenty
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Speaker 2: two Arab countries. In one Jewish country, Israel sits on
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Speaker 2: a round point six percent of the land mass of
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Speaker 2: the Middle East. The Arab world has ninety nine point
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Speaker 2: four percent. And in the entire Middle East there aren't
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Speaker 2: even thirty thousand Jews that live there. And so when
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Speaker 2: you do that comparison, you realize what democracy means, what
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Speaker 2: freedom means, and we don't.
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Speaker 1: Is really not a slogan is you're living it out
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Speaker 1: every single day.
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Speaker 2: Because we believe in it. Because we're not doing it
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Speaker 2: because of some piece of paper or to get that
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Speaker 2: label of democracy. We're doing it because we believe in
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Speaker 2: that as Jews, as these Judeo Christian values, we believe
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Speaker 2: in freedom. We remember in the scripture, how many times
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Speaker 2: does it remember? Remember that you were a stranger in
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Speaker 2: the strange land. And so Israel has the only growing
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Speaker 2: Christian population in the entire Middle East. In Bethlehem, even
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Speaker 2: you see it going down quickly. You look at Nazareth, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: Christian population is growing. You look at Bethlehem. Up until
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Speaker 2: around nineteen ninety four, Israel was in charge of Bethlehem
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Speaker 2: and it was eighty percent Christian. After nineteen ninety four,
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Speaker 2: the Palestinian authority took it over and now it's under
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Speaker 2: ten percent Christian. And so when you talk about these
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Speaker 2: kind of words that in many ways have lost meaning,
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Speaker 2: like freedom and democracy because so many evil forces are
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Speaker 2: taking advantage about it, you see what the real ramifications are.
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Speaker 2: And that's also why we stand with our Christian brothers
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Speaker 2: and sisters inside of Syria who are being persecuted both
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Speaker 2: as the state of Israel and also the International Fellowship
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Speaker 2: of Christians and Jews who's gone in built two medical
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Speaker 2: clinics for them, distributed thousands of food. We need to
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Speaker 2: stand together ben now more than ever.
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Speaker 1: There's something interesting, and I think it's I say interesting
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Speaker 1: is a way of saying shocking that is happening right
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Speaker 1: now in the United States of America. I have clearly
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Speaker 1: I believe there's a line that's been drawn in the sand.
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Speaker 1: You either are anti Semitic and against Israel, or you
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Speaker 1: are standing with them. I don't believe there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of gray area unless you're just new and younger and learning.
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Speaker 1: But what we're witnessing in the conservative movement is something
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Speaker 1: that I never could have imagined we would see. I
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Speaker 1: knew this would happen on the left and the Democrats,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of them have abandoned Israel, and we
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Speaker 1: saw that certainly in the last administration on our Biden.
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Speaker 1: But what I'm shocked to see now is there is
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Speaker 1: this group on the right that has gained a very
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Speaker 1: large audience. What scares me even more, it's a younger audience,
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Speaker 1: and they are in this ideal this idealistic world of isolationism,
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Speaker 1: which is Israel is not It doesn't need to be.
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Speaker 1: He is not a big deal to us. I don't
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Speaker 1: understand why there were such great allies with them. Why
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Speaker 1: do we give them a blank check? Is how it's
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Speaker 1: been said recently. They're committing Atroses is what I've been hearing.
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Speaker 1: Their genocide is another word that they used in Gouds
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Speaker 1: in the West Bank. And if you come here and
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Speaker 1: you see what I've seen, not only do you know
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Speaker 1: that's a lie, but there's factual data to back it up.
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Speaker 1: But even if you haven't come here, I am terrified
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Speaker 1: of what we're going to see in the Republican Party
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Speaker 1: in the next ten to fifteen years, as these younger
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Speaker 1: people that are being indoctrinated to hate Israel or hate
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Speaker 1: Jews in general, are gaining momentum legitimacy because of people
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Speaker 1: that have very large followings on social media. I've considered
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Speaker 1: him a long time friend, Tucker Carlson. I couldn't disagree
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Speaker 1: with Tucker more on the issue of Israel. I think
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Speaker 1: friends should be able to disagree, and that's why I'm
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Speaker 1: not going to attack him personally, but I am going
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Speaker 1: to say on this show publicly I disagree, and when
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Speaker 1: I'm on TV with Tucker Carlson, I have seen and
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Speaker 1: I've known me and Kelly for a long time. I
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Speaker 1: disagree with her on what she's been saying recently and
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Speaker 1: some of the people she's been talking to on Israel,
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Speaker 1: Nick Flint as the white supremacist full stop. I don't
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Speaker 1: know why people are giving in platforms like Tucker good
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Speaker 1: to the to day. I even disagree with the Heritage Foundation,
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Speaker 1: and I'm going through a list in my head because
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Speaker 1: I'm shocked Heritage Foundation the present there who is given
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Speaker 1: a platform to advocate for this or is supporting it
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Speaker 1: even financially. We've seen some of the numbers that come
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Speaker 1: about how much evertence they've done on Tucker Carlson's show,
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Speaker 1: and I think it's important that we don't stay silent.
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Speaker 1: Certainly is a conservative leader in the conservative movement and
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Speaker 1: say this is going down the wrong path? Now? Can
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Speaker 1: I love all those people? Can I still be friends
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Speaker 1: of them? I saw Tucker at Charlie kirkstuneral. We hugged.
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Speaker 1: I'm not wonning a war with him, but I do
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Speaker 1: think there's an important point here where I want people
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Speaker 1: to know that I do believe something very different. How
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Speaker 1: concerned are you being in Israel seeing this? Where I mean,
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Speaker 1: the conservative movement, the Republican Party had been star wars
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Speaker 1: for my entire lifetime for Israel. Kakabi, who's the ambassador
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Speaker 1: is I'm going to see him tomorrow and I can't
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Speaker 1: wait to see him. By the way, we were texting
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Speaker 1: earlier today and I'm so excited to see him tomorrow
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Speaker 1: for lunch. But like we are now becoming, I'm a
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Speaker 1: worried the minority in this in this fight, and I
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Speaker 1: think now is the time that we have to understand
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Speaker 1: there's a real anti Semitic problem on our college chemiss
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Speaker 1: but not just from the left. It's also happening the
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Speaker 1: right and it terrifies me.
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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, thank you for being so bold
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Speaker 2: in what you say and standing with your values and
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Speaker 2: being consistent in that no matter what. That's what I
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Speaker 2: think we need in this world. I look at everything
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Speaker 2: through spiritual eyes, and so I see a spiritual warfare
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Speaker 2: that's raging. I see the words of Isaiah that are
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Speaker 2: coming to life, saying there's going to come a time
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Speaker 2: when darkness will be called light, and light will be
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Speaker 2: called darkness. Isaiah said it, good will be called bad,
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Speaker 2: bad will become good, and people are going to be confused.
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Speaker 2: And I see this confusion setting in, and it's not
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Speaker 2: differentiating between Republicans or Democrats. It's a confusion. It's a
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Speaker 2: spiritual war. And so what I always go back to
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Speaker 2: when I'm confused is the scriptures is God's word. And
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Speaker 2: that's another issue. So many people are biblically illiterate. We're
12:09
Speaker 2: trying to get educated on scriptures from podcasters. People are
12:13
Speaker 2: going to their podcasts instead of to their pastor, and
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Speaker 2: their church pastors are scared of speaking out because they
12:20
Speaker 2: don't want to be canceled. That God's word has become
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Speaker 2: so controversial. It's not Israel, it's the entire Bible. It's
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Speaker 2: all of what God said and has withstood much worse
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Speaker 2: things than where we are right now, but we have
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Speaker 2: to learn from history and make sure it doesn't get there.
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Speaker 2: But I truly believe that on one hand, we're seeing
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Speaker 2: a generation of darkness and people who are confused, and
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Speaker 2: people who are really spreading things that are evil, people
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Speaker 2: who in the name of trying to free Palestine, are
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Speaker 2: actually keeping the Palestinian children and people oppressed by this
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Speaker 2: terror group Ramas. They're not standing up for the Palestinian people.
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Speaker 2: They're standing up for Ramas, which for me says everything.
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Speaker 2: It's a confusion. But when I see that darkness, Ben,
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Speaker 2: I also for myself, I need to make sure that
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Speaker 2: I express in every possible way how there's also to
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Speaker 2: counter maybe balance that darkness, this light that we've never
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Speaker 2: seen of a generation of Corey teenboons and Pastor Bonhoeffer's
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Speaker 2: who Pastor von Hoffer. One of my favorite quotes from him,
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Speaker 2: He said, God doesn't care about how you feel. He
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Speaker 2: cares about truth. And there are so many people like
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Speaker 2: what you just declared that care about truth. God says,
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Speaker 2: pray for the peace of Jerusalem. God says, to to
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Speaker 2: love our neighbor like ourself, to be able to put
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Speaker 2: our hand out to peace. When you see the Abraham
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Speaker 2: Accords and how Israel's been able to maintain this relationship
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Speaker 2: with Arab countries, because it's incredible, Yes, because they recognize
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Speaker 2: and they share the same threat. The threat is radical Islam,
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Speaker 2: and so there's a confusion, yes, But there's also so
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Speaker 2: many people with the strongest moral clarity, like you, people
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Speaker 2: who are forced now to speak out for the first
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Speaker 2: time ever. And I just pray, pray, pray that those
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Speaker 2: voices will grow and that the light will outshine the darkness.
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Speaker 1: something good coming out of something terrible in the attacks
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Speaker 1: who your friends are, ye, But two you've had President
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Speaker 1: Trump really step up and go after your enemies. Iran
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Speaker 1: is one of them. How significant is President Trump's leadership?
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Speaker 1: Do you believe for the safety of Israel and not
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Speaker 1: just Israel, but for the world. He's made it clear
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Speaker 1: I'm going after terrorists, whether they're narco terrorists we're seeing
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Speaker 1: think in the last six eight nine months?
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Speaker 2: Wow, Well, we've seen leader who talk about peace and
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Speaker 2: then capitulate to the strongest, most violent voice. Yeah, are
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Speaker 2: not bringing peace closer, They're bringing peace farther. President Trump
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Speaker 2: has been strong and vocal and has taken very bold
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Speaker 2: action to bring peace because he knows peace is an
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Speaker 2: active statement, it's not a passive statement, and so a
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Speaker 2: strong America brings a strong world, and we've seen that firsthand.
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Speaker 2: I was at President Trump's speech at the Knesset just
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Speaker 2: a few weeks ago, and it was incredible to see
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Speaker 2: how in Israel that's so divided politically, the right and
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Speaker 2: the left, we're hugging and giving each other of high
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Speaker 2: fives and genuine smiles and genuine because what we're ultimately
17:48
Speaker 2: looking for ben both the right and the left, and
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Speaker 2: we can't lose sight of this. We're looking for a
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Speaker 2: better world. We're looking for peace. And President Trump in
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Speaker 2: the Abraham Accords, in the historic peace agreement that he
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Speaker 2: just drew, now that got every single living Israeli hostage
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Speaker 2: back from Gaza strip. Just yesterday the American hostageous body
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Speaker 2: was returned to Israel. But you know that's not reported
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Speaker 2: on America.
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Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, a lot of people don't know that. They're
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Speaker 1: listening right now. Why was that? And that's a huge
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Speaker 1: victory after.
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Speaker 2: Over two hundred and fifty days that an American young
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Speaker 2: adult was being held his body by terrorists and Gaza,
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Speaker 2: Americans don't even know that. Because of President Trump's agreement,
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Speaker 2: we got that body back from burial to his parents.
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Speaker 2: Many Americans don't even know that. Yeah, And so I
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Speaker 2: think that strength in the right way brings peace closer,
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Speaker 2: not farther away. And I'll tell you that I say
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Speaker 2: that as somebody who is not involved in politics. I'm
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Speaker 2: a humanitarian. I distribute over three hundred three million meals
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Speaker 2: a year in Israel, from north to south, in every
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Speaker 2: different community, from Nazareth to the Christian community to Jerusalem
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Speaker 2: to carry out Shmona where our soup kitchen was hit
18:59
Speaker 2: by Iraq. Within twenty four hours, we were distributing food again.
19:03
Speaker 2: And I do that on behalf of Christians who stand
19:05
Speaker 2: with Israel and love Israel. And so I'm not a politician.
19:10
Speaker 2: I'm an individual when we speak in this way, but
19:13
Speaker 2: it's very clear the right kind of strength protects those
19:17
Speaker 2: people who should be protected and weakens those who are
19:23
Speaker 2: trying to reak havoc. And I say that also as
19:26
Speaker 2: a mother who just yesterday brought my nineteen year old
19:29
Speaker 2: daughter to the Israeli Army.
19:31
Speaker 1: You bring up something that I witnessed yesterday and it
19:34
Speaker 1: is something that I do actually wish America had. You know,
19:38
Speaker 1: there's a lot of anti Americanism that is growing within
19:41
Speaker 1: our country with young people that are embarrass of America,
19:45
Speaker 1: that hate America, that think America is evil, that America's
19:48
Speaker 1: history is awful, that America should be torn down and
19:51
Speaker 1: turned back into some sort of utopia under socialism or
19:54
Speaker 1: communism or Marxism. One of the things that I think
19:57
Speaker 1: is so incredible about Israel is whether you're a man
19:59
Speaker 1: or a women, if you're able bodied, you're going to
20:02
Speaker 1: give two years to your government. In serving your government. Yesterday,
20:06
Speaker 1: as I was walking, we witnessed dozens and dozens of
20:12
Speaker 1: different groups of I say, kids now being forty. Gosh
20:15
Speaker 1: when my forty four haveever old I am, who are
20:18
Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen, who are serving their military walking around with
20:22
Speaker 1: machine guns. I didn't find that threatening. I thought it
20:25
Speaker 1: was amazing, And I'm like, dude, I wish we did
20:27
Speaker 1: this in America, because if you serve your country for
20:30
Speaker 1: two years, I think you're going to love your country
20:32
Speaker 1: a lot more than if you are being in doctrinatey
20:35
Speaker 1: like we are our kids in our public school education
20:37
Speaker 1: to hate our country. And it's the amount of pride
20:42
Speaker 1: that people that live in Israel have in their nation
20:44
Speaker 1: has to be connected to that.
20:45
Speaker 2: In some way, we could disagree with our government and
20:49
Speaker 2: still love our country. We could disagree with the politicians
20:53
Speaker 2: or some decisions they make and still love one another.
20:55
Speaker 1: I mean proove of that. BB does not have one
20:57
Speaker 1: hundred percent approval rating.
20:58
Speaker 2: No he doesn't.
20:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, nowhere close. And I think that goes to the
21:02
Speaker 1: point that you're saying you can love your country and
21:03
Speaker 1: also disagree on the political side of things.
21:05
Speaker 2: In America's country in the world, it's the country of freedom,
21:08
Speaker 2: is the country of opportunity. This country, if you want
21:11
Speaker 2: to go out and work, you'd make a good life
21:13
Speaker 2: for yourself. There's no one holding it back.
21:16
Speaker 1: Was your daughter excited? Oh my gosh, I mean, I
21:20
Speaker 1: know as a mom, I've got three boys, you're freaking
21:23
Speaker 1: out right, because at any point serving in the military
21:26
Speaker 1: could become a very deadly thing. It's not a time
21:28
Speaker 1: of peace really over here. I think at any point
21:31
Speaker 1: in my lifetime, there's always there's always a real threat
21:34
Speaker 1: that you're watching, even if it's not all at war.
21:37
Speaker 1: You guys experienced war a lot more than we do
21:39
Speaker 1: in the US. Your war is much more hand to
21:42
Speaker 1: hand than it is, you know, shooting drones shots from
21:45
Speaker 1: the sky like we did our b two bombers or
21:49
Speaker 1: whatever it is that are bombing. I mean, it is
21:51
Speaker 1: very different. But like the kids that I saw, like
21:55
Speaker 1: they seem to be pretty pumped. And there's an ignorance
21:57
Speaker 1: when you're eighteen nineteen about just like this is what
22:00
Speaker 1: I do and I'm excited. So I know your fear
22:03
Speaker 1: is a mom right, but your daughter was. She excited.
22:06
Speaker 2: So I called this spend the broken ground of getting
22:09
Speaker 2: what you prayed for. From the time our children were
22:11
Speaker 2: born here in Israel, my husband and I would always pray,
22:14
Speaker 2: let them be connected to family, let them be connected
22:17
Speaker 2: to God, let them be protected, connected to this land
22:20
Speaker 2: and to God's word. And we got what we prayed for.
22:24
Speaker 2: But that means that, yes, my daughter was very excited
22:26
Speaker 2: to join the army, not because the violence. She's not
22:29
Speaker 2: excited to kill people, it's not. She's excited to protect
22:32
Speaker 2: and serve. And after October seventh, and she always volunteered
22:35
Speaker 2: at soup kitchens through high school, and she volunteered on
22:38
Speaker 2: an ambulance and took the course. And after October seventh,
22:41
Speaker 2: I looked at her and I said, my love, do
22:44
Speaker 2: you still want to serve? You know, as you see
22:48
Speaker 2: your peers, I can't tell you how many funerals of
22:50
Speaker 2: nineteen year olds I've been at with my daughter in
22:52
Speaker 2: the past two years. I can't count.
22:54
Speaker 1: And so when you say that, you're not talking five
22:57
Speaker 1: or six. You're talking a lot of funerals, a lot
23:00
Speaker 1: of funerals. And that's one of the things I think
23:03
Speaker 1: people to understand about this war, the number of people
23:06
Speaker 1: that died in this war, that we're just trying to
23:08
Speaker 1: protect and defend their people, their petry, protect just to
23:12
Speaker 1: procure it's significant.
23:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And she looked at me and she said, Mummy,
23:18
Speaker 2: if I was at all hesitant about joining the army,
23:23
Speaker 2: which I wasn't, now even that tiny hesitation is gone.
23:28
Speaker 2: If I don't protect this land, we won't have it.
23:31
Speaker 2: If I don't protect my people, they won't be safe.
23:34
Speaker 2: And if I don't stand on these borders watching, we
23:37
Speaker 2: won't have a future. That she went with such faith
23:42
Speaker 2: and confidence that this is God's calling on her life.
23:46
Speaker 2: And as a mother, I couldn't be more proud and worried.
23:49
Speaker 2: And I'm praying like I never prayed before. But what
23:53
Speaker 2: else do you want for your child then to love God,
23:56
Speaker 2: love the land, and love their people.
23:59
Speaker 1: Let's talk about what the IFCJ is doing. And this
24:02
Speaker 1: is day one of me broadcasting live here from Israel.
24:04
Speaker 1: My guess with me is the President Global CEO of
24:07
Speaker 1: the IFCJ. You can go to IFCJ dot org to
24:10
Speaker 1: find out more. Yale Eckstein, and y'all, let's talk about
24:14
Speaker 1: what I've just experienced with IFCJ since I've been here.
24:16
Speaker 1: I had the privilege today of delivering food to a
24:20
Speaker 1: woman that's basically bedridden. She cannot work. Her son has
24:25
Speaker 1: a pretty intense epilepsy, so he can't work. She's a
24:28
Speaker 1: caretaker for him, even though he's I think she said
24:31
Speaker 1: he's fifty three. She desperately needs the food that comes.
24:36
Speaker 1: It was you could just tell by the condition of
24:38
Speaker 1: where she lived in her home and the stipend that
24:41
Speaker 1: she receives in the government's very small. It's less than
24:43
Speaker 1: so security in the US. And to see how thankful
24:47
Speaker 1: she was and tell her story, and she cried a
24:48
Speaker 1: lot because she was so thankful that there is a
24:51
Speaker 1: group like IFCJ that is giving her the food she
24:54
Speaker 1: needs to live, so she can also live for her son,
24:58
Speaker 1: because when she's gone, there's no one else to take
25:01
Speaker 1: care of him. He will go into some sort of
25:03
Speaker 1: assisted living mental health facility. From what we were told today,
25:07
Speaker 1: she clearly doesn't want that to happen anytime soon. She's
25:11
Speaker 1: a mom that's trying to stay alive who cannot walk
25:15
Speaker 1: for her son so he doesn't get institutionalized in essence,
25:19
Speaker 1: and looking at how thankful she was for and for
25:23
Speaker 1: people that are listening. Don't know what IFCG does. They
25:25
Speaker 1: do a lot of different things, but one of the
25:26
Speaker 1: things you guys do is you mentioned the meals. How
25:29
Speaker 1: many meals do you guys deliver to people in Israel
25:31
Speaker 1: a month or a year.
25:32
Speaker 2: Just from soup kitchens, we'd deliver over three million meals
25:36
Speaker 2: a year. And that's besides hundreds of thousands every single
25:40
Speaker 2: month that we're delivering through food boxes, food tickets, food cards,
25:45
Speaker 2: meals on wheels. There's nowhere in Israel that there's a
25:50
Speaker 2: person in need that doesn't have access to food from
25:54
Speaker 2: the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, and we even
25:58
Speaker 2: help the government of Israel build the first NAT small
26:00
Speaker 2: food program in America. There's food stamps. At least someone
26:04
Speaker 2: could have food even if they're very poor. Israel. We
26:07
Speaker 2: have to remember, as a young country and it was
26:09
Speaker 2: started by.
26:11
Speaker 1: Let's remind you of how young it is.
26:12
Speaker 2: Nineteen forty eight Israel was established, but it shouldn't be forgotten.
26:16
Speaker 1: My parents' lifetime. Where I was sitting yesterday was actually Jordan.
26:19
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm hmm.
26:21
Speaker 1: That's just crazy to me. We were standing in part
26:23
Speaker 1: of the old sting. They're like, just so you know,
26:24
Speaker 1: you were standing.
26:25
Speaker 2: In Georgia and Jews weren't allowed there and.
26:27
Speaker 1: Jews weren't allowed there and that was until.
26:29
Speaker 2: What year that was until the nineteen sixty seven.
26:32
Speaker 1: That was okay, Yeah, nineteen sixty.
26:34
Speaker 2: Nineteen sixty seven is when we got Jerusalem. After the
26:37
Speaker 2: Arab countries attacked Israel trying to take away the little
26:40
Speaker 2: piece of Israel that we had. They lost in Israel
26:43
Speaker 2: conquered Jerusalem in six days and whenever Israel.
26:46
Speaker 1: That is the famous war.
26:48
Speaker 2: That's the famous war. Six days, six days, you work,
26:50
Speaker 2: on the seventh day, you rest, And that was the
26:53
Speaker 2: War of Jerusalem. But it's it's you know, there was
26:58
Speaker 2: a very famous quote from Warren Buffett. He said, it's
27:02
Speaker 2: easier to make money than it is to effectively distribute it. Yeah,
27:06
Speaker 2: and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has excellence
27:09
Speaker 2: in distributing because our average donation is around fifty dollars
27:13
Speaker 2: a month. We recognize every single penny makes a difference,
27:16
Speaker 2: and so every meal is done with integrity and given
27:20
Speaker 2: with full love and respect. But we do it in
27:23
Speaker 2: a way that is as cost effective as possible. We
27:26
Speaker 2: work with an organization that saves fruits and vegetables that
27:30
Speaker 2: would otherwise be thrown out from fields across Israel. They're
27:34
Speaker 2: in perfect condition and we are able to distribute them too,
27:37
Speaker 2: elderly as soup in the winter. That we're always finding
27:41
Speaker 2: new ways both to hold the government of Israel accountable
27:44
Speaker 2: and get matching funds and give them our plans of
27:46
Speaker 2: how you can effectively distribute food, but also to wherever
27:51
Speaker 2: we see someone that's hungry, be there to say, just
27:53
Speaker 2: like the woman that you met today, this is from
27:55
Speaker 2: Christians around the world who love you and very often, Ben,
27:59
Speaker 2: it's the food, of course, another day of living, another
28:02
Speaker 2: day of having that sustenance that they've been praying for.
28:05
Speaker 2: But even more than that, I think it's feeling loved.
28:11
Speaker 1: The people loved you talk about love. One of the
28:13
Speaker 1: other things that we got to witness today was there's
28:16
Speaker 1: a really cool project, and I hope that people in
28:19
Speaker 1: America will do this where elderly a lot of them
28:22
Speaker 1: eighty years older above, can come every day and they
28:27
Speaker 1: can paint and help create things they're sold in the
28:30
Speaker 1: gift shop and they get subsidized about thirty percent of
28:32
Speaker 1: their pension or their government aid to come and do this.
28:35
Speaker 1: And many of them have been doing it for twenty
28:37
Speaker 1: twenty five, twenty seven years. There's even six married couples
28:40
Speaker 1: who work there. They're not allowed to work together, which
28:42
Speaker 1: is even help more funny to that, Like, it was
28:44
Speaker 1: hysterical when I found that out. But there were people
28:47
Speaker 1: in their nineties, there were people. There's a woman who's
28:50
Speaker 1: legally blind and they basically created a way for her
28:53
Speaker 1: to still make her projects. It was some of the
28:56
Speaker 1: most beautiful like throws. There was some table runners that
29:02
Speaker 1: they make handmake. They're just beautiful potter pottery that they
29:09
Speaker 1: were hand painted. And you see this and you're like,
29:12
Speaker 1: these people have a purpose and they were loving what
29:15
Speaker 1: they were doing at this age, giving them a place
29:17
Speaker 1: where they belong. They were saying during COVID that thirty
29:20
Speaker 1: percent of the workers could didn't come back afterwards, because
29:24
Speaker 1: they said in their homes and they lost that skill
29:27
Speaker 1: at that older age, and they lost the ability to
29:29
Speaker 1: be mobile and go get on the bus, which is
29:31
Speaker 1: so sad, but also tells you how much community matters.
29:34
Speaker 1: You're not isolated, you're not home alone. And that's one
29:37
Speaker 1: of the things that you guys Ifcj's sponsor, which is
29:39
Speaker 1: amazing giving these elderly people a place to be important
29:42
Speaker 1: and significant and also creates thing beautiful.
29:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's incredible because all those elderly that you saw
29:48
Speaker 2: live below the poverty line. They live on around six
29:51
Speaker 2: hundred dollars a month. Almost all of them are immigrants
29:53
Speaker 2: to Israel. You see the Ethiopians together from the once
29:57
Speaker 2: last tribe of Dan and they're speaking I'm Hurrik. And
29:59
Speaker 2: you see the Russians sitting together and speaking Russian, and
30:02
Speaker 2: the Ukrainians and the French, and many of them don't
30:06
Speaker 2: have family, and.
30:07
Speaker 1: So this simple this is their family.
30:09
Speaker 2: This is their family. We give them a bus card
30:12
Speaker 2: that they're able to come, but for them that saves
30:14
Speaker 2: them money and gives them somewhere to go. We give
30:16
Speaker 2: them a place to go where they can actually be
30:18
Speaker 2: valued and develop a skill and be selling their work
30:21
Speaker 2: and we give them lunch every day that for them.
30:24
Speaker 1: Maybe they're only hot meal o the day. We found
30:25
Speaker 1: out today, which is incredible.
30:27
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it's saving lives and it's you know, in
30:30
Speaker 2: the scriptures we see God says specifically feed the hungry,
30:33
Speaker 2: clothe the naked, shelter the poor, and so that's what
30:36
Speaker 2: we do. We look at all of our philanthropy here
30:38
Speaker 2: and Israel, all of our projects are saving lives through
30:41
Speaker 2: the eyes of what does the scripture say? And so
30:43
Speaker 2: every day we have Jews returning home to Israel from
30:46
Speaker 2: the four corners of the Earth. We bring them on
30:48
Speaker 2: Alia from places where they're persecuted, from South America, from
30:52
Speaker 2: across the former Soviet Union, from France, from countries I
30:56
Speaker 2: can't even say on air because they're secretive and it
31:00
Speaker 2: be dangerous. But there's still Jews coming home every single
31:04
Speaker 2: day with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews because
31:07
Speaker 2: that's what it says in the scriptures.
31:09
Speaker 1: You guys, purpose is incredible and I hope that people
31:12
Speaker 1: that are listening will go check you out IFCJ dot
31:14
Speaker 1: org it's IFCJ dot organ. You can just see what
31:17
Speaker 1: they do. There's a lot of videos online, so you
31:19
Speaker 1: can check them out on social media. What are the
31:21
Speaker 1: biggest needs now with the ceasfire, Because the work now
31:26
Speaker 1: is really just begun in many ways, that's also part
31:28
Speaker 1: of what I've witnessed here. A lot of people lost
31:30
Speaker 1: their homes, a lot of people lost where they live,
31:32
Speaker 1: they lost their communities. There's a lot of needs right
31:35
Speaker 1: now and there are going to be a lot of
31:36
Speaker 1: needs for some time because when you have a basically
31:38
Speaker 1: a three year war, it is it changes your community,
31:43
Speaker 1: especially the areas that were hit hard. What are the
31:45
Speaker 1: needs now that that are for people that are listening
31:47
Speaker 1: that might want to get.
31:48
Speaker 2: Involved, Well, let me give you an example what rebuilding means.
31:52
Speaker 2: Rebuilding means that there's communities the Kibbutzim on the border
31:55
Speaker 2: with Gaza that we're invaded on October seventh.
31:58
Speaker 1: And explain to people, I know what it is, but
32:01
Speaker 1: it's neighborhoods.
32:02
Speaker 2: It's neighborhoods, a neighborhood.
32:04
Speaker 1: Just like we're nine percent of people listening right now.
32:06
Speaker 1: It's you imagine your neighborhood as a neighborhood being attacked exactly.
32:11
Speaker 2: It's a neighborhood that has its own grocery store. That
32:14
Speaker 2: has its own kindergartens and schools, that has homes that
32:17
Speaker 2: but it's a closer community. The term keyboots kind of
32:20
Speaker 2: alludes to very very close knit community where everyone's doing
32:24
Speaker 2: things together. You don't lock your doors, you go into
32:26
Speaker 2: people's houses without knocking, you eat meals together. It's a
32:29
Speaker 2: very close knit community, which is beautiful, which is why
32:32
Speaker 2: they always said we have the best life here. And
32:34
Speaker 2: those homes, those buildings are all destroyed. I was just
32:39
Speaker 2: in near O's where one in four people from that
32:43
Speaker 2: community were either killed or kidnapped. The homes are destroyed.
32:47
Speaker 1: I say that again. I want in four and can
32:50
Speaker 1: say this because I want to paint the picture. Imagine
32:52
Speaker 1: your neighborhood where you're listening right now. I live in
32:55
Speaker 1: a gated, guarded community. One in four in my neighborhood
32:59
Speaker 1: was gone on the day of the attack.
33:01
Speaker 2: Including the Bibas family, those beautiful redhead kids one year
33:05
Speaker 2: old and three year old and their mother who are
33:08
Speaker 2: kidnapped and then murdered, and they were taken just a
33:11
Speaker 2: mile away into Gaza. You have to realize how close
33:14
Speaker 2: things are. It's these communities are a mile away from
33:18
Speaker 2: the Gaza strip where Hamas terrorists are planning their next
33:22
Speaker 2: October seventh. But these communities are still destroyed, but people
33:25
Speaker 2: want to go back. That's the resilience here in Israel.
33:28
Speaker 2: We believe in life, we believe in planting, we believe
33:30
Speaker 2: in rebuilding. And they turned to the Fellowship and said,
33:33
Speaker 2: we need our kindergarten at least refurbished so we could
33:37
Speaker 2: send our children to a kindergarten that's not burnt and destroyed.
33:41
Speaker 2: And so the Fellowship now is renovating all the kindergartens
33:45
Speaker 2: and the border with Gaza. You have the hospital that
33:48
Speaker 2: was hit by Iranian ballistic missile. An entire floor of
33:52
Speaker 2: the hospital, the surgical unit was destroyed.
33:55
Speaker 1: Do you know why buy an Iranian missile?
33:57
Speaker 2: Buy an Iranian missile. The reason why there weren't hundreds
34:01
Speaker 2: of deaths there is because the day before they made
34:04
Speaker 2: the decision to close down this unsecured surgical unit and
34:09
Speaker 2: move everyone to the MIMI Gan, which means armored or
34:13
Speaker 2: protected surgical unit that the International Fellowship of Christians and
34:18
Speaker 2: Jews sponsored and built just a few years before.
34:21
Speaker 1: One of the things that you guys do that I
34:23
Speaker 1: also think is so incredible is you give out I
34:26
Speaker 1: think a lot of people think that there's like unlimited
34:27
Speaker 1: funds in Israel. Not true by the government. That's a lie.
34:31
Speaker 1: I've witnessed it. A lot of people think the Israel's
34:33
Speaker 1: a very rich country. Is actually not. And one of
34:36
Speaker 1: the things that I also think misconceptions is why I
34:38
Speaker 1: tell people to come here, is that there's just a
34:41
Speaker 1: plentiful amount of military goods. Also not true. You guys
34:47
Speaker 1: give out armored vehicles, armored military vehicles, also armored ambulances,
34:54
Speaker 1: flat jackets, basically bullet prevests for first responders that are
34:59
Speaker 1: not provided by the by the government here in Israel.
35:02
Speaker 1: That is how real the need is.
35:04
Speaker 2: Yes. On October seventh, then our team was at the
35:09
Speaker 2: place the farthest you could go that the military would
35:12
Speaker 2: let you go on the way down south, handing out
35:14
Speaker 2: bulletproof vests because when all the other infrastructures fell apart,
35:18
Speaker 2: we were there to provide and so for the heroes
35:20
Speaker 2: going down south to try to save lives, we were
35:22
Speaker 2: just passing out bulletproof vest And I was watching television
35:26
Speaker 2: and there was a live interview with one of these heroes,
35:30
Speaker 2: a civilian hero who was driving down south in his
35:33
Speaker 2: car and wearing his vest, and he came under live
35:35
Speaker 2: fire on TV from Ramas terrorists and he got out
35:38
Speaker 2: of his cars. He's still reporting and he's hiding in
35:40
Speaker 2: the bushes and he's trying to figure out what to do,
35:42
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden you see he's wearing a
35:44
Speaker 2: vest from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. And
35:47
Speaker 2: the person who led so much of this heroic work
35:52
Speaker 2: saving countless lives on October seventh was Keith Isaacson. He's
35:57
Speaker 2: the head of security for that area that the old
36:00
Speaker 2: The only reason why he survived is because the Fellowship
36:02
Speaker 2: provided him with a bulletproof vehicle. He was shot at
36:05
Speaker 2: over two dozen times. Even the wheels are bulletproof.
36:09
Speaker 1: Wow. So without that car.
36:11
Speaker 2: He wouldn't be alive, and many other people wouldn't be alive.
36:14
Speaker 2: Because it's only because he was alive he was able
36:17
Speaker 2: to arrange for the rescue. I was on the ground
36:20
Speaker 2: during the Iranian War at a site where a huge
36:23
Speaker 2: missile hit six buildings were destroyed. Me and my team
36:26
Speaker 2: were there as there were still first responders working trying
36:30
Speaker 2: to uncover the bodies, trying to save people's lives, and
36:33
Speaker 2: as they were working, I realized there are sirens going off,
36:36
Speaker 2: there's missiles falling, and they don't have flack jackets, and
36:39
Speaker 2: so immediately we went and provided them. These first responders
36:44
Speaker 2: need to be protected, both because they deserve to be
36:47
Speaker 2: that's what's right, That's what's just. These people risking their
36:50
Speaker 2: lives instead of being in the bomb shelter with their
36:52
Speaker 2: family should be protected. But also because the bombs that
36:57
Speaker 2: are trying to kill them are coming from evil and
36:59
Speaker 2: the black jackets that are protecting them are coming from
37:03
Speaker 2: forces of good Christians who are saying, we sanctify life.
37:06
Speaker 2: And that's a message that we have to shout off
37:09
Speaker 2: of rooftops. There are still people in this world who
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Speaker 1: I tell you what, as we wrap this day one
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna have a lot more. Tomorrow. I'll be
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Speaker 1: who's the US Ambassador to Israel, so I'm gonna go
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